Curling-iron.



'0. W. WILMOT. V GUBLINGABoN. .APPLIGATION FILED' Murlo, 1910. RENEWBDPEB. 123.1912. l 1,081,604. Patented July 2, 1912? D. b sI .L

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CHARLES W, VIILMOT, OF SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR T0 WESTERNMECHANI- CAL DEVICE COMPANY, 0F SAN DIEGO,.CALIFORNIA, A CORPORATION 0FARIZONA.

CURL'ING-IRON.

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Application iled'May 16, 1910, Serial No. 561,754.

To ollzwhom. it may concern:

lie it known that'l, CHARLES lV. VILMQT, a citizen of the United States,residingat San Diego, in the county of San Diego and State ofCalifornia,have invented new and useful Improvements in Curling-Irons, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to electrical or elec-' 930,586, issued to meAugust 10, 1909, for,

elect-ric curling irons. According to the invent-ion constituting thesubject of said Letters Patent, the heating irons or members or elementsof the curling iron lie normally out of a common plane, t-heintermediate heating` iron lying in a plane beneath or at one side ofand parallel with a plane in which lie the outerheating irons. Thus, inthe curling operation, the hair is finally compressed between and amongthe heating irons, and a shield or apron connected with the intermediateheating iron, with the three heating irons out of lateral alinement.

4 It results, in the'use of the patented form of curling iron described,that the intermediate curl or wave of the hair does not conform with thelateral curls or waves thereof; such intermediate .curl or Wave being ofan exaggerated form and having substantially straight portions merginginto the curved portion of the side Waves or curls.

It is one object of the present invention t-o` obviate the lack ofuniformity of Wave or' curl formation above referred to, and to provideacurlingl iron of the type set forth,4

whether electrically -heated or otherwise', which will produce a uniformcurve or Wave formation.

Further particular-objects of the inven-l tion consist in the .provisionof means at variance with those disclosed 1n said 4Letters Patent, formounting the heating irons in Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 2, 1912. Renewed February 12, 1912. sex-iai No.' 677,252.

connect-ion with the grip' or handle member, and forl electricallyconnectingthe electricity resisting means with which each of the heating1rons 1s provided with electricity -supply means or feed means withinthe grip or handle member.,

-With the above and other objects in view, the invention vconsists inthe novel and useful provision, construction, combinatiomassociation andrelative' arrangements of parts, members and features, all ashereinafter described, shownl in-the accompanying drawing, and finally'pointed out in. claims.

In the drawing Figure l is a longitudinal side View of a curling ironvconstructed according to the invention; Fig.- 2 is a partiallongitudinal sectional view of the same, taken -upon the line 2-2, Figa-1 and looking -in the direction of the appended arrows:

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view, taken upon the line 3 3, Fig. 2.and looking. in

the direction of the appended arrows: Fig.y

@fis a composite isometric view of a number of separate featuresentering into the invention, and operating 'in joint relation, the samebeing ioWn in relatively separated positions; an Fig. 5 is a det-ailtransverse sectional view, parts being omitted forclearness ofillustration. 'taken upon the line 545, Fig. 1, and looking inthe'direction of the appended arrows. Figs. 2. 3 and 4 are. upon anenlarged scale.

Corresponding parts in all the figures arc denoted by the same referencecharacters. Re erring with particularit7 tothe drawe `improved curlingiron, which is illustrted as of the type employed customarily f r wavinghumanhair, comprises two ly movable-members A and B, between and amongwhich anda shield C t-he hair is received and compressed in the curlingoperation. The heating irons a are preferably three in number, themember A coinprising two, and the member B comprising one of thesame..The members Aand B ply means or feed means e, whereby the.' heatingirons a are providedwith the proper heat units through the agency ofelectricity resistance means f with which each of the heating irons ,isprovided. Each of t-he are relatively movably connected, preferl outerneming* irons a is detaehably conneeted with the handle member o throughthe agency oli connection means (/l.' and the iiiteriuwiiate heatin; 'liron (I 'is detaehably connected with the handle member 5' through theagency of the conneethin means y] and eonnee 'on means fl, whirli areVoperatively connu-ted with ltlu` saine. These connection ineans. .7 and/1 permit the irons proper to be replared when required by long'service, or to be removed and repaired as necessary. The eonneetionmeans 'o and /r are so organi/erh in eonnnon parts, as to permit ofinterchange ot' the heating' irons. The grip or handle member e4 mayeomlirise two separable portions, G and 7. of which the connection means(j/ serve as the portion and said portions and may be 'proded with acombined grip, guard and f3.1) locking meinber l. detaehably Connectingthe portions G and 7, being connected at either o nd with the portions(i and 7 re spective 'l in any suitable manner.

particular preferred torni andlorganination and combination of parts,members and features embodying the invention, and ii'eatures andelements thereof above set forth. is as follows-Line wires S and 9 arerer; vvel within the tubular handle niember o, constituting theelectricity supply nieans e, and said line wires extend through theconnection means o and the connection means to the resistance means f ineach ot the heat-ing irons a: in the` manner hereinafter set forth. Theconnection means r/ comprises a tubular body 7 which at one end,opposite to that which ConnQetswith theI handle portion 6, is enlargedlaterally, as at it), and provided with parallel tubularsoekets l1projecting from a plane or ,'iat endl portion 12a of the body 7, saidbody 'l' having' diverging' interior passages 1Q .communicating with thetubular sockets 11. lhrough these passages the line wires 8 and t?respectively evtend` and also through the tubular sockets 1l. each ofwhich. is provided at its outer end with an insulating plug 13.ll/[ounted upon each of the sockets ll is a sleeve lt provided with aninwardly dia bearingA opening i6; and each of the soelzets li isprovided upon its inner side with a liiuigrrudinal slot l terminating atits inner end in an approximately Circular opening: 't8 which regi. withthe respective bearing' openingy 16. The slots 17 are thus opposed eachto the other. lrlach ot' the tubular sockets ll is lprovided with athreaded outer end portion 18a.

The connection means` It comprises a socket body 19, provided at itsforward end with an exteriorly threaded nipple 20 and liaviinr lateraltubular bearings 2l. termed to enter and to be rereivcd by the bearingopenings lo; the socket body 19 being cham:

rected plane or flat tace l5 provided with' bered longitudinally. as at2Q", in communi* 'ation with the tubular bearings 2l and thc tubularnipple Q0, the tubular nipple eK- tending at right angles to' thebearings 2l which have a eoinuion axis. The socket body 19 has oppositetlat 'facial portions Q2 which engage with the tlat walls or taeialportions l5 respectively ol the sleeves 14;; and the socket body l) istreelto swing upon its bearings 2l in a plane at right. angles to thatin which lie the sleeves'llt and the sockets ll within the same.

lllach ot the heating irons a consists ot a preferably 'metallic tube2?. having` a closed outer` end Q-et. the inner end portion there-ot'being' threaded for engagement with one, ot' the nipples 1], or thethreaded nipple 20. lach ot the tubes 233 is provided with an innerinsulating` lining '25: and disposed centrally thereof longitudinallyoit each ot' said tubes is an e'xteriorly insulated conducting` stem orrod Qlixed to one ot the insulating' plugs 13, which plugs aredetachable trom the sockets l'l and the nipple Q0 respectively. Coiledabout each stem or rod 2G, and connected with the outer end thereof, isa length of resistance wire 2T, the inner end portion oit which projectsthrough the respective insulating* plug' 13. The conducting' stems orrods 2G, at their inner ends. and the length ot' .resistance wire 2T.are serially connected with theline wires S and t), as clearly shown inFig. l. The linewire 8 or 9 is connected with the conducting stein orrod Q6 or resistance wire 27. as the case may be. oit the respectiveVside heating iron a. A circuit wirtl Q8 connects the resistance wire 27or stein or rod 2G, as the ease niay be, of said outer heat-l ing' irona with the conducting stem or rod Q6 or resistance wire 27, as the casemay be, of the intermediate heating iron a, such circuit wire 28 passingthrough the rcv spective opening 18 in the respective outer socket 1l,the respective bearing opening lo in thesleeve thereof, and therespective tubular bearing 2l at the, respective side of the` socketbody 19, and being joined with the conducting' stem or rod 26, or the resistanoe wire 27, as the case may be, of the intermediate heating irona, within the chamber 22a in the socket. body t9.

The grip or handle vmember is connected with the socket body i9, beneaththe saine. so as to relatively pivotally`1nove the members .t and B, orthe outer heating irons fand the interi'nediate heating' iron a.

The shield or apron C extends longitudinally ot and above the heating;irons a, being looped over the saine and eentrally Connectedlongitudinally, as at- 29, with the upper portion of the intermediateheating iron a. e

rlhe operation, method of nse'a-nd advantages of the iniprovenienteconstituting the invention will be readily understoodfrom the foregoingdescription, taken in conneef--v `tion with the accompanying drawingand.' the following statement2`It will be under-f stood-.- that the.line wires Sand 9 project from the handle member .0, as at -one endthereof, as shown in Fig. 1, andare fii'rtlier .extended to a suitablesource of electrical supply. .With the parts all assembled as shown inthe drawing, a closedvelectrical circuit -will extend through the feed.wires 8 and 9, the conducting stems 26,tlie resistance wires 27, and thecircuit wires 28, so that the resistance wiresv will transform theelectrical energy into heat within each and all of the heating irons a.When the latter are suitably heated, the hair is v sed about the heatingirons'4 a, over the f irons, under the guard C, and under. 'th

termediate irpn.; '1 -She members A .and-Bi are then man ted, byy meansof theh'anv dle members c-i dgso'as to press and wave orresult-antformation. In the manipula- :band B, the member B .fwithitsheating iron swings .pivotally by means of the bearings tion orrelative movement of the membersA.

.- 21 .iipon the sleeves 1:4 and wit-hin the bearing openings 16therein; the circuit wires QSI-included in theelectrical circuit whichincludes the resista-nce `wires`27 and the con- *.-diietin'g -ste'msorrods 26 of the heating irons, being accommodated by .and withintheopenings 18 in .the sockets 11, the bearsockets 11 .permit of'assembling and-disassembling the heating irons a and the sockets 11and-socket' body 19, the. circuit wires 28 zreadily entering the'openings 18 inthe sockets' llthrough said slots17, and conf vei'selybeing readily withdrawn. therefrom. The socket body 19 and the sleeves17 `may lbe jointly passed into. operativepositio'rns upon and inconnection with the sockets 1 1,

. at the Sametime that the .outer heatingirlons a are brought.intopositionsfor connection' Y' with the sockets 11; the intermediateheatingiron having been rst- 'coni'ieotedwith4 `5a I do not desire to beunderstood as limita Y same, in adapt-ing the improvements .to vav 'niithe nipple 520 of 'the socket-body 19'. 'Reversal of these operationswill permit disassembling. of the. heating irons. a and the connectionmeans g and'h'.

struction, formation, and combination'l ofl parts, members and featuresshown and de-' scribed; but reserve the .rightto vary thel rying.conditions of lise, Without departing from the spirit of. theinvention-.andthe terms. of' thefollowing claims.

U.. wie." I-lalfls' in :fa continuous curvature anni@ I claiin andfdesirev tf'securev by Letters 'lste I* 21.* Improvements A-vided withspaced sockets', heating irons connected"respectively with said sockets,and an intermediate heating iron. p'ivotally'con# nected with andbetween said sockets.

scribed, comprising aliandle member provided with spaced sockets,heating irons connected respectively with said. sockets, sleeves-.uponsaid sockets, and an intermediate heatingriron pivotally connectedwithid sleeves. ts of the character de g a handle member provided with,'ed' sockets, heating irons connected re tively with said sockets,sleeves upon said sockets, and an intermediate heating irgn pivotally-connectedwith and between said sleeves; said sleeves and sockets beingprovided with registering .openings adapted to. accommodate elecKtricity supply means.

scribed, compr soribed,-'comprising a handle member pro.-n vided .withinternal passages and with spaced tubular sockets communicating withsaid passages, heating irons connected with iron pivotally ,connectedwith and .between .passages and adapted with'said passages toaccommodate 4electricity supply means.-

5. Improvements 4of the vcharacter described, comprising a handle memberprovided with spaced tubular sockets and with ed-with 'and between saidsleeves; said sockets 'and saidv sleeves being .provided with .openingscommunicating with said passages and' adapted. therewith to accommodateelecv-.tricit-y.supply-means.

scribedlcomprisinga handle 'n iemberprd. vided .with spaced tubular-sockets,-he at.ing irons connectedQwith said .'sockets, 'sleevesupon.said'.s ockets, there being bearing open- .with tubularbearingsentering said bearing openings, .said socket body being. provided withaninternal chamber, .and said'fsockets -`being pr'ovidedwith openingscommunicat-f 'passages in said handle member; and a heating ironconnected with. said socket `body';`s aid' handle member being providedwith passages communicating with said tuof the character de-., scribed,comprising a handle member prof 4. Improvements of the character devsaid 'socket'.s; said sockets being provided with .openingscommunicating 1 with said 100 passages communicating respectivelythere-'- with, heating irons connected with 'said sockets, sleeves upon.said sockets,- and fan' intermediate. heating iron pivotally connect- 6.Improvements of the character-1de! ings in'saidsleeves, a socket 'bodyprovided' bular sockets; whereby electricity supply means may beextended through said handle-...130

.2. Improvements of the character desaid sockets, and an intermediateheatingv` I Vingwith said tubular .bearings and with CIT' member andsaid ubular sockets and said tubular bearings and' said socket body,

7. Improvements of the oharacer described, comprising a. handle membei'pio vided with internal passages and Wiih tubular sockets communicatingrespectively with said passages, heating irons connected with saidtubular sockets and provided With- 'insulatmg plugs entering the same,sleeves upon said tubular sockets and provided With bearing openings,there being openings in said tublar sockets communicating with saidbearing openings, and a socket body provided with tubular bearingsentering said bearing openings and with an internal vided with aninsulating chamber communicating with said Jcubulai" bearings; saidsocket body being provided with a Jnubular nipple communicating withsaid internal chamber; and a heating iron connected with said tubularnipple'and proplug entering said tubular nipple.

InV testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

CHARLES W. VILMOT..

ioUNG C. BURKHART.

